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Solution SFT

Advises companies on IT, engineering and custom software

Senior IT Project Management Analyst

Program ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeQuébec City, QC, CanadaCA$80k - CA$90k

About the Job

Requirements

  • Fluency in French, both spoken and written.
  • A first-cycle university degree in information technology, business administration, management, or a related field.
  • At least seven years of experience in project planning, project control, or project management.
  • At least three assignments, each lasting a minimum of one year, as a PCO on large-scale organizational information technology projects.
  • Experience with organizational transformation programs or projects, ideally in a technological, public, or parapublic context.
  • Knowledge of project-management methods, frameworks, and best practices, including traditional, agile, or hybrid approaches.
  • Experience with Microsoft project-management tools for planning, monitoring, reporting, and management information.
  • Ability to consolidate, analyze, and present reliable, consistent, and structured management information.
  • Ability to produce progress reports, dashboards, performance indicators, and management analyses.
  • Ability to support project managers, managers, and governance bodies in preparing accountability reports.
  • Understanding of processes for monitoring scope, schedules, costs, risks, dependencies, and benefits.
  • Strong organization, coordination, analytical, synthesis, and rigor skills.
  • Written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously in a complex environment involving multiple teams and partners.

Responsibilities

  • Support integrated project planning, including prioritization, capacity management, and resource allocation.
  • Collaborate with project managers to develop, update, and monitor project plans.
  • Monitor project progress, including scope, schedules, costs, risks, dependencies, and benefits, in support of the responsible project manager.
  • Maintain the integrity and quality of planning data in project-management tools.
  • Contribute to project initiation, monitoring, and closure activities.
  • Establish and maintain governance mechanisms for the IT project portfolio in line with the organization's directions and practices.
  • Participate in preparing and facilitating governance and accountability bodies, including monitoring, portfolio, and decision-making committees.
  • Produce dashboards, progress reports, and performance indicators for governance bodies.
  • Prepare presentations, tracking documents, and meeting minutes for committees.
  • Track decisions, actions, outstanding items, and commitments.
  • Contribute to improving portfolio indicators and monitoring mechanisms.
  • Support project managers in ensuring projects comply with current organizational, methodological, and regulatory requirements.
  • Analyze project compliance with project-management frameworks, processes, and best practices.
  • Perform quality checks on project-management deliverables.
  • Maintain traceability of decisions, actions, risks, issues, and relevant management information.
  • Identify gaps, recommend corrective actions, and follow up on them.
  • Participate in quality assurance activities for management information and project documentation.
  • Consolidate and analyze management information from project teams to ensure its quality, consistency, and reliability.
  • Monitor project effort, costs, commitments, and financial information.
  • Produce and maintain management dashboards that include performance indicators, progress status, risks, issues, and items requiring attention.
  • Reconcile project data with available financial data as needed.
  • Participate in trend analysis, forecasting, and variance control.
  • Produce financial indicators and reports to support decision-making.
  • Support project managers, Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers, and other stakeholders in applying traditional, agile, or hybrid project-management practices.
  • Use and support the use of project-management and tracking tools recommended by the IT Project Management Office, including Azure DevOps and corporate tracking tools.
  • Act as a resource for the use of project-management tools, templates, and methodologies.
  • Guide project managers in applying organizational processes and standards.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement of project and portfolio management processes, tools, and practices.
  • Collaborate with communities of practice, centers of excellence, and internal project-management initiatives.
  • Promote consistent project-management practices within the IT vice presidency.
  • Advise stakeholders on project monitoring, control, and governance.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in a context comparable to the IT vice presidency or in an organization on the scale of Santé Québec.
  • In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics, Azure DevOps, and other Microsoft project-management tools.
  • Knowledge of information technology.
  • Experience in agile project management, including Scrum, Scrumban, Kanban, Disciplined Agile Delivery, or Scaled Agile Framework, or in hybrid agile/Waterfall approaches.
  • Experience producing dashboards, monitoring project portfolios, or providing organizational accountability reporting.
  • Experience in health and social services.
  • Experience in a large public or parapublic organization.
  • One or more of the following certifications: an agile certification, Scrum certification, Scaled Agile Framework certification, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner, Project Management Professional, Certified Associate in Project Management, PRINCE2, Microsoft Project certification, Microsoft Power Platform certification or another relevant certification related to Microsoft project-management tools, portfolio-management/PMO/PCO certification, or Prosci or another change-management certification.

About the Company

Solution SFT

Advises companies on IT, engineering and custom software

Solution SFT advises organizations on IT strategy and engineering, and builds custom software for startups, small businesses and larger companies. Its consultants review how clients manage technology, check infrastructure and compliance, and recommend changes to business processes. The firm's security and infrastructure work covers data protection, cloud migration and recovery planning for systems that need to keep operating through disruptions. Developers create web and mobile applications, connect software through interfaces and modernize older systems, including tools that reduce manual coding. Solution SFT was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Montreal, Canada
Founded
2020

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